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By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOver the years a number of organizations have attempted to list the "worst countries for women," often to coincide with dates such as International Women's Day. One immediate challenge: What makes a country "worst for women"? Some researchers focus on humanitarian issues, others on educational attainment and literacy rates. Then, of course, there are health statistics to consider, as well as cultural biases and economic conditions. And no matter how accurate the underlying data are, numbers can only go so far in telling us what real women experience on a day-to-day basis. Those caveats ...
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By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Oct. 22) -- A crocodile on the loose is being blamed for the crash of a small plane in the Democratic Republic of Congo that killed 20 people after passengers panicked and stampeded down the aisle. A lone survivor told investigators that a passenger had smuggled the reptile, whose size wasn't noted, on board in a sports bag. It somehow got loose on a domestic flight from the capital of Kinshasa to a regional airport in Bandundu, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported. The panic started when a terrified stewardess "hurried" toward the cockpit, followed by passengers. That threw the small ...
Women 'Ruined' by War
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyThe face of Neda -- caught and killed on the front lines – came to represent the human cost of Iran's political turmoil. A woman, paying the price a war she didn't make. There's a reason why that sentiment has become almost cliché: It's true in wars across the world. ...
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